So April was a big month for us - mainly one weekend in particular.
The wedding plans are moving along nicely for us. I have just about everything booked and the only things we have left to do is pick out the cake, confirm with the DJ - waiting on that contract to be sent to us, take our engagement photos, plan the honeymoon, print out the invites, finish the centerpieces, meet with the pastor - when we figure out which one will marry us and then print out the bulletins for the ceremony - but that won't happen until about 2 weeks before the wedding.
So the first weekend in April took us to Colorado for an extended weekend. Our friends Brad and Cherie got married on April 4th in Golden, Colorado. Every time we go out there, we always try to see our family that lives in Denver. Jerad has his aunt and grandma out there and I have an aunt and uncle and my cousins out there. Unfortunately, due to timing, we weren't able to connect with my family, but we stayed with Jerad's Aunt Gail and family. We arrived late on a Wednesday night so there wasn't much time for chatting as it was definitely time for bed. The next day, Thursday, we basically hung out. Jerad took off to go run some errands and play his luck at Dave and Buster's with Brad, so his Grandma Chuck and I took off to do a little shopping. But you all know...shopping makes you hungry....so why not fill up on some Mexican. 
We had all made plans to go to Lucky Strike Bowling that night so Chuck and I decided we would make our bowling games a little more interesting. I had purchased 5 prizes - one was for best overall score, one for best granny shot, one for best backwards granny shot, one for best non-dominant hand, and I think the last one was for the most gutter balls. I hope I got them right - as this did happen about 2 months ago. Check out the photos for that night: 
And now you can see all of the great prizes we got (please do not ask me who won which title as I have no clue):
Chuck, Gail and I got some fun Easter candies, Cathy got a candle and Jerad got a little tabletop pool game.
It was such a fun night that we decided to continue on with the fun. Pretty much right outside of Lucky Strike is Coyote Ugly. Now if you know me at all, you would know that I love that movie as it is in one of my top 10 favorites. But I was not so interested in going in as all of that planning of the bowling wore me out. ;-P So Gail and I let Cathy and Jerad go hang out. 
And while they were there (very short stay), Gail and I decided to chill out ourselves on the wonderfully comfortable couch.
What a great night with everyone. The next day I think we just hung out for a while before we took off for the rehearsal and dinner. I have some great photos of the rehearsal and the dinner. Something surprising to me was that the dinner was at Applebee's. They did a magnificent job there and apparently they are one of the very few locations that did that. I called one for our rehearsal dinner and it sounded like they didn't want to go through the effort.
I think I may have failed to mention that there was a really cool bison farm right by the church. And of course I had to go say hi and take my picture with them. :-)
So not only was the rehearsal good, but the wedding was beautiful. I ended up taking about 140 pictures during the rehearsal and wedding that I will spare you most of them but I do have a couple to share. Jerad did have a little buddy most of the night. His name was Preston and was the ring bearer. He took to Jerad the entire day and well into the evening. 
Can anyone say, "Daddy Material"? 
Congratulations to our friends, Brad and Cherie Bornhorst!!
No comments:
Post a Comment